For this cause also any thing ther enacted is not to be misliked, but obeied of all men without Time of summons.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

The statement [Pg 199] that the shepherds were held in the least estimation is probably correct, for the reason that their unrestrained occupation was least adapted for subjection to fixed rules of life and a strict ritual; but that statement, like the assertion in Genesis that "cowherds were an abomination to the Egyptians," is not to be taken in reference to the breeders of oxen and the care of flocks, which was carried on with great vigour among the Egyptians, but to the nomadic tribes who wandered with their flocks on the broad marshes of the Delta, or on the pastures of the Libyan and Arabian ranges, and were wholly strangers to all settled life.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Max Duncker

Thus, then, we have in reality a day six months long , of which the morning and the evening are the two equinoxes, its noon the summer solstice.
— from Everyday Objects; Or, Picturesque Aspects of Natural History. by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

The tall mountains wear this zone close to the cliffs, and the trails encounter it near the passes or follow it for long, level stretches, as along the Garden Wall.
— from Many-Storied Mountains: The Life of Glacier National Park by Greg Beaumont

“I can see the outlying rocks towards its north-west extremity called ‘The Cloudy Isles,’ and away to the east I noticed the snow-white peak of Mount Ross, which stands in the centre of the island and is over six thousand feet high.”
— from The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

They suppose that the function assigned to the earth is not to keep up and regularize, but to withstand 15 and countervail, the rotation of the kosmos.
— from Plato's Doctrine Respecting the Rotation of the Earth and Aristotle's Comment Upon That Doctrine by George Grote

The dread of punishment sprang up in the young king's heart, and though that emotion is not the highest motive for seeking the Lord, it is not an unworthy one, and is meant to lead on to nobler ones than itself.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

It is always consoling to an eleven who are beginning their second innings to feel that every hit adds to the total that the other side must get before they can win, and that their energy is not to be applied towards wiping off a deficit.
— from Cricket by A. G. (Allan Gibson) Steel

There were great difficulties: an army to raise and equip and train so that it could meet an army that had been preparing for forty years to fight the world; an army to be transported over three thousand miles of water, a terrific task even in normal times, but made a hundred-fold harder because of the monsters that lurked under the sea waiting a chance to send a transport to the bottom.
— from Junior High School Literature, Book 1 by William H. (William Harris) Elson

Paul Bekker, arguing that the Eroica is not the portrait of any one hero, but that the symphony represents his concept of human heroism, believes that the first movement is the only one of direct connection with Napoleon: “The hero’s deeds have resulted in victory, the restless will has achieved fulfilment.”
— from Philip Hale's Boston Symphony Programme Notes by Philip Hale